Article ID: CBB000932684

Necessary Torture? Vivisection, Suffragette Force-Feeding, and Responses to Scientific Medicine in Britain c. 1870--1920 (2009)

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One of the primary aims of late nineteenth-century laboratory experimentation was to ground understandings of illness and disease within new regimes of science. It was also hoped that clinical practice would become increasingly complemented by discoveries and technologies accrued from emergent forms of modern medical enquiry, and that, ultimately, this would lead to improved diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that could be applied to a wide variety of medical complaints. This met with resistance in Britain. So far, analyses of the British reception to forms of scientific medicine have focused on a science versus intuition dichotomy. This article aims to address other aspects intertwined in the debate through an exploration of alternative representations of the medical scientist available and the relation of this to perceptions of clinical practice. Using new technologies of the stomach as a case study, I shall examine how physiologists approached digestion in the laboratory, the responses of antivivisectionists to this, the application of gastric innovations at the clinical level, and the impact of the use of the stomach tube in the suffragette force-feeding controversy.

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Authors & Contributors
Miller, Ian
Shmuely, Shira Dina
Jones, C L
Worboys, Michael
Wittje, Roland
Waizbort, Ricardo
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and society
Vivisection
Political activists and activism
Public health
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
England
United States
Norway
India
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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